The Chicago Teachers Union’s governing council has agreed to stop its labour movement and go back to in-person work on Tuesday, putting an end to a contentious battle with Chicago Public Schools and allowing kids to return to school for the first time in a week on Wednesday.
The union’s house of representatives voted 389 to 226 in support of halting the work stoppage Monday evening, thereby ending the union’s third labourer conflict in 27 months and leaving many teachers dissatisfied. The CTU’s 25,000 members are slated to vote on whether to ratify the prospective accord later this week.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at a media meeting after the vote that families could “breathe a sigh of relief” that their children would soon be going back to school, affirming parents’ anger and concern with her recent battle with the union following the 11-day protest in 2019 and the restarting of discussions last year.
“Some will wonder who won and who lost,” Lightfoot claimed. “No one wins when our youngsters are removed from the environment in which they may learn best and are safest. “Our system’s teachers adore their kids.” That wasn’t the point of this. We adore our instructors and will continue to support them.”
According to a draft of the offer obtained by the Sun-Times, the district’s program was called for CTU participants to return to facilities on Tuesday, with in-person sessions beginning on Wednesday.
CPS did not promise to reestablish a district-wide school suspension threshold or consent to an opt-out testing scheme, two of the union’s most publicised requests. As the union had requested, the district also refused to return to school on January 1d.
Officials did, however, pledge to boost testing in all schools to at minimum 10% of their school students. Students who had enrolled for testing would be chosen at random each week. This week, all employees will be subjected to testing.
Despite sticking with an opt-in testing approach, the district promised to cooperate with the CTU to get 100% student testing and immunisation by Feb. 1. CPS would set up phone banks where personnel would assist in calling parents. Approximately 20% of pupils have registered for testing.
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When it came to specific school closures, CPS reached an agreement with the CTU and agreed to close a facility for at least five days if 30per cent or more of its teaching staff are absent for successive days due to positive cases or quarantine. Substitutes are unable to reduce the absences to less than 25per cent. A campus would also be closed if 40% of its kids were quarantined.
CPS did not promise that the missing days would be compensated at the year ending, leaving CTU members in the dark about whether they would be paid or not. CPS CEO Pedro Martinez stated that the arrangement would increase school safety and extend COVID-19 testing. It has been an objective of his since assuming the position in September.
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